Cartoon: Facebook Going Public

Dutch cartoonist Tom Janssen uses a familiar emoticon to show how Facebook (the company) is probably feeling about the upcoming IPO.

Facebook’s Fastest Growing Markets

We are looking for two countries that are experiencing an explosive growth of Facebook users.

Inventing a Word for a Facebook Relationship

Podcast: Asking your Facebook friends to invent a tenuous Facebook relationship.

No, Sir, Google and the CIA Are Not the Same

Wednesday, I interviewed Wael Ghonim (wah-ELL go-NEEM), author of the just published Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power, and the man who steered the Egyptian revolution on Facebook.

Podcast: Celebrating Everyday Technology Genius

Most tech podcasts spend all of their time talking about the newest, hottest thing to hit the shelves. But sometimes, I like to highlight those everyday bits of tech that people actually use, and find useful. Take bubble wrap, for instance. Did you know that it was originally created in the 1950s to be used as wallpaper? [...]

Cartel Violence and Social Media in Mexico

In violent parts of Mexico, social media outlets have become valuable channels for an emerging network of citizen journalists and concerned citizens.

How Social Media is Helping Name Protests in Syria

How “Day of Departure” protests get their name.

What’s Assyrian for Canuck?

One of the world’s first written languages gets a new 21-volume dictionary.

Why France Outlawed Twitter and Facebook Language

What’s behind France’s new law on Twitter and Facebook in broadcasting?

Tech Week in Review: May 20, 2011

Amazon has announced that e-books are outselling paper books on its website for the first time ever. But does that mean you can get rid of your bookshelves? That’s just one of the stories in Clark Boyd’s roundup of great global tech stories you might have missed this week.

Facebook caught in Israeli-Palestinian divide

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A new Facebook page that came up after the original was taken down

From Blogger to Hero … to Political Leader?

On a recent evening at a busy downtown Rabat café, a long-haired, bearded young man carrying a black briefcase comes waltzing in through the front door. He has the look of someone looking for someone else. His energy is contagious. His dark eyes scan the sea of tables. They stop on me. I nod. He nods back. “Sorry I’m late,” he says, in French, sliding into the booth next to me [...]

Tunisia learns to speak freely

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Undoing the overshare in social networking

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Egypt through the eyes of other cartoonists

Cartoonists outside the Middle East are commenting on events in Egypt just as much as those in the region. A few more references to the imagined back and forth between Hosni Mubarak and Barack Obama but just as many pyramids, dominoes and pharaohs. Take a look.